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Katrina vanden Heuvel

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Katrina vanden Heuvel

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Editor and Publisher

Katrina vanden Heuvel is Editor and Publisher of The Nation.

She is a frequent commentator on American and international politics on ABC, MSNBC, CNN and PBS. Her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Foreign Policy magazine and The Boston Globe.

She writes a weekly web column for The Washington Post. Her blog "Editor's Cut" appears at thenation.com.

She is the author of The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in The Age of Obama (Nation Books, 2011). She is also the editor of Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover and co-editor of Taking Back America--And Taking Down The Radical Right.

Articles

News and Features

Remembering the French resistance spy, diplomat, Buchenwald survivor and human rights defender.

The well-known musician talks about the adoption ban, Pussy Riot and the future of the opposition movement.

Three members of Pussy Riot have been found guilty of hooliganism. Their protests sparked a wave of support for freedom of speech and human rights among Russians.

Progressives must take the fall election seriously, even as they challenge the limits of the debate.

No one who has succeeded in America actually did it on his or her own.

Mass demonstrations in Moscow and dozens of other cities have been the most striking display of grassroots activism since the early 1990s.

Van Jones of Green For All has joined MoveOn.org, the Campaign for America’s Future and dozens of other progressive organizations to challenge the reign of private interests.

The arc of history bends towards justice, but it will not bend by itself.

Many progressives thought we had taken back America in 2008, but the work has just begun.

Blogs

The congressman sees an opportunity to confront military bloat in the deficit debates and war-weariness.
The governor’s attack on “cross-endorsements” is really a ploy to ban the pesky third party that stands up to corporate...
Budget cuts arise because of crises, not vice versa. Will congressional Republicans ever learn?
The defeat of President Obama’s gun-control package indicates that lessons from history have been insufficiently learned.
 The Senate's rejection of universal background checks should be the start of a popular movement to hold our leaders accountable.
They are more vital now than ever, when the Obama administration has invoked the Espionage Act more than all other presidents combined.
A quick spin through The Nation's archives offers a running critique of the former Prime Minister and her ideology.